It is the purpose of the Utah State Mormon Battalion Monument Commission to raise this fund by the 30th day of January, 1920,--Battalion Day--being the seventy-third anniversary of the official ending of their march, and arrival upon the shores of the Pacific. The respective counties have been organized for the campaign for the funds, subscription lists have been opened. It is proposed to conduct a campaign of public meetings in the interest of the Monument throughout Utah and the surrounding states, and give the people of the inter-mountain west every opportunity to honor themselves and their posterity and their state by fittingly memorializing the March and Achievements of the Mormon Battalion. * * * * * Transcriber's note: Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. The following corrections have been made to the text: Page iii: The Call of the Battalion. [period missing in original] Page iii: From Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe. [period missing in original] Page iv: From Santa Fe to the Mouth of the Gila. [period missing in original] Page iv: Record of the Battalion in California. [period missing in original] Page v: The Tide of Western Civilization Started 67 [original has 66] Page v: The Mormon Battalion's "Diggings" on the American River 68 [original has 67] Page v: Ascent of the Sierras from the Western Side 72 [original has 71] Page v: Evidence of Appreciation of the Battalion's Services 73 [original has 72] Page v: Efforts to Raise a Second Mormon Battalion 74 [original has 73] Page v: Lieut. George Stoneman [original has Stonemen] Page 9: In it Mr. [period missing in original] Little expresses Page 14: in the event of [original has or] the Battalion being raised Page 15: locate on Grand Island until [original has untill] they could Page 15: [original has extraneous quotation mark] You can stay till your husbands Page 16: "Four regiments were called [quotation mark missing in original] Page 17: 11th of July, Col. [period missing in original] Thomas L. Kane Page 17: with benevolent [original has benevolant] intentions Page 17: His [original has Hisc] written report Page 18: The United [original has Unied] States want our friendship Page 18: "This is the first time [original has single quote] Page 18: choose the best locations." [quotation mark missing in original] Page 19: affectation at their leave-taking," [original has ','] Page 19: firm and hard by frequent use. [period missing in original] Page 19: the canto of debonair [original has debonnair] violins Page 22: To volunteer [original has volunter] for a "war-march" Page 24: said river some thirty or forty miles. [period missing in original]